“And Palin would get more than 45% of the vote if the RNC did not get in her way.”
Possibly.
Republicans aside though, I’ve yet to meet any middle of the roaders or liberals who even like her. Most have said to me that, for whatever reason, they absolutely hate her.
Liberals also hated George Bush. Don you really think they would like any conservative Republican leader? As for moderates, I believe some can be swayed by issues such as the economy and standing up for individual liberty and freedom but there is always going to be a good number of moderates who are going to vote Democrat. it is what it is!
I wonder what they would have thought of Hunter.
Those, my friend are not Republicans or Conservative. They are Democrats or liberals who have not come out of the closet.
What is not to like about the woman. She connects, conservative, pro life, NRA supporter and a good Governor. Now if you do not like that you are a what? LIBERAL!
A recent poll by Kellyanne Conway and Celinda Lake found that 64% of women, many of whom voted for Obama, nevertheless thought Palin got a raw deal in the press. This suggests to me that minds are open to be changed about her. Quoting from an article about this:
But while devoted Republicans to this day still think Quayle got a bum rap from a hostile media, most other Americans did not. That does not appear to be the case with Palin, at least among women, who are a permanent majority of the American electorate.A big majority — 64% — of the women surveyed by Conway and Lake said they felt Palin got more negative media coverage than other candidates did because she was a woman. That was more than twice as many as the 31% that said the same thing of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sympathy toward Palin stretched across ideological and party identifications with many women who did not vote for Palin saying she was unfairly covered because of her gender. The poll of 600 women, taken Nov. 21-24, had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Liberals hate every good conservative.
We lost this election because McCain didn’t have his base.
There were a lot of Christians who voted for Obama, and I think they will start being repulsed early by Obama’s pro-abortion stand. I know they respect Palin’s abortion stand, especially with Trig.
“I’ve yet to meet any middle of the roaders or liberals who even like her. Most have said to me that, for whatever reason, they absolutely hate her.”
To begin with, NO liberal is going to vote for any Republican, period. Middle of the roaders always vote their pocketbook—the economy, rather than the person. I think history has shown this to be true. I attended 3 Palin rallies during the campaign season. The majority of people I met, more women than men, were former Hillary supporters and had voted Democrat in the past. Among my family and friends, my mother, 2 sisters, 3 cousins, and 4 of my closest friends had never voted Republican in their lives, but all voted McCain ONLY because of Palin. With the right book, study (the formation of a kitchen cabinet is a fantastic start), and appearance on serious shows to demonstrate her gravitas, Palin can turn her image around. Things turn on a dime these days with all the media exposure.
But I agree about 2012. If somehow Obama has turned the Titanic around or is well on his way, and his popularity is running high, I do not want any of our “young guns” to run in 2012. Palin and the rest are plenty young enough to wait until 2016, and I do believe Palin even said in one of her post-election interviews that she may look at it in 2012 or 4 years later. That way she could do another term as governor and then have 2 years to concentrate on a campaign. If this is the case, let Mitt and Huck fight it out to be the sacrificial lamb in 2012.